Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya set a searing pace in the men's marathon at the Beijing Games, obliterating the Olympic record with a time of two hours 6.32 minutes on Sunday morning. ...full story at cbcnews
from cbcnews on Sun, Aug 24 2008
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